1999 Virtual Intelligence: Conflict Avoidance and Resolution through Information Peacekeeping (Journal of Conflict Resolution, Spring 1999)
PDF (32 Pages): Steele on Virtual Intelligence Conflict Avoidance Full Text Online Below the Fold
1998 Geographic Information for the 21st Century: Building a Strategy for the Nation
Arnie Donahue, until 1997 the Chief of the C4I Branch in the National Security Division led by Don Gessaman, moved in retirement to the National Academy of Public Administraiton (NAPA) where he continued to engage in investigative surveys at the classified level. Below is one of the first reports that he helped administer. It makes …
1997 Creating a “Bare Bones” Capability for Open Source Support to Defense Intelligence Analysis
DOC: Creating a Bare Bones OSINT Capability When Paul Wallner, on rotation from DIA to CIA, first attempted to establiksh an Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) concept of operations, this was the first paper delivered to him. At the same time, he gave OSS a fair shot at business with ten trial weekly reports spanning everything …
1995 Bender (US) The Information Highway: Will Librarians Be Left by the Side of the Road?
In 1986, Project GEORGE (Smiley) in the CIA’s Office of Information Technology discovered that computers had been designed without ever talking to librarians. There were created as unstructured bit buckets. It turns out that in the analog period, structure and the Dewey decimal system and humanly-constructed taxonomies were vitally important if one was to archive …
1995 Robert Steele on Waging War and Peace in the 21st Century — French National Flag Conference on Information Strategy
SECRETARIAT GENERAL DE LA DEFENSE NATIONALE Flag Conference on Information Strategy 15 December 1995 WAGING WAR AND PEACE IN THE 21ST CENTURY Mr. Robert D. Steele, Chairman & CEO OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS Group Challenge of Change: Six Revolutions Changing Threat–Four Warrior Classes/law enforcement as the new legionnaires Changing Dimensions of Time & Space–War/Peace, Here/There, Long/Short …
1995 Private Enterprise Intelligence – Its Potential Contribution to National Security (Full Text Online for Google Translate)
Private Enterprise Intelligence: Its Potential Contribution to National SecurityROBERT DAVID STEELE Intelligence and National Security (October 1995), pp. 212-228 Original as Posted Full Text Online to Facilitate Automated Translation
1995 National Information Strategy 101 Presentation to CENDI/COSPO*
NATIONAL INFORMATION STRATEGY: CENDI & COSPO AS CATALYSTS FOR NATIONAL SECURITY AND NATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS Introduction Open Source Roots–Copeland Anecdote Informing the Consumer or Collecting Secrets? 90% of Consumer’s Input Unclassified & Unanalyzed (Congress, White House, Bureaucracy, Foreign Governments, Lobbyists, Think Tanks, Media, Friends–<10% Intelligence) 40-80% of Producer’s Input from Open Sources–Allen Dulles New Threats/Environments Lend …
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